Eastgate had revived interest in the artist in 1969 after Leveson Street, where mainstays included artists such as Constance Stokes, Charles Bush and John Warren, had closed. Braund would speak her mind only when it came to art and other artists. She also taught art.
She was branded with a classical modernists as a result of her inclusion in the exhibition Classical Modernism at the National Gallery of Victoria in 1992.
Braund's work was figurative with a design component which was in line with her father Gordon's association with industrial design. This emphasis, with its evocation of silhouettes, may not have helped sales but did not deter public galleries from adding it to their collections. Predominantly gouaches, they were agonised simplifications of her subjects.
Lady Maisie Drysdale, wife of the famous artist, is said to have encouraged Leveson Street to take them on although gouache has tended not to be seen as a finished medium, but as a study medium in the market place. Perhaps because they were mostly earlier, the gouaches sometimes sell better in the secondary market than her oils. The best price at auction, however, is still an oil at $14,750 at Menzies in 2011, Boys Climbing No.13, c1971 .
Educated at St Catherine's School, Toorak, she was brought up in the wealthy leafy Melbourne suburb of Malvern in her family's home in Serrell Street and was the only child of Sue and Gordon. Hardy, she sold the house and moved to Mornington where she was a familiar daily swimmer on the beach. It had been hoped she would become a nonogenarian in line with her father but illness and falls in her last years meant that this was not to be. She had been living in a nursing home for two years.
She travelled abroad with another equally focussed artist woman Guelda Pyke in the early 1960s. She did not marry or have any children but had a large following. Friends and devotees should be alerted that her funeral which will be held The White Lady Chapel at 953Nepean Highway, Mornington on Wednesday 30 October at 2 p.m. Following the service the funeral will proceed to Mornington Cemetery, Craitie Road, Mount Martha for burial.
